The fat man's father was a coroner, and he had seen a lot of dead people. When the village was building houses, he was the one who handled all the corpses they dug up. It wasn't a problem for him to put the bones back together.
The middle-aged man wasn't an ordinary person either. He didn't say anything and went to pick up the bones.
Only the fat man and I looked at the human bones in their hands and felt our scalps go numb.
The three of us worked together and quickly put together a complete human body. Then, I noticed that there was an intact arm bone on the ground after we finished putting it together.
The fat man rolled his eyes and asked me, "Third Baby, did this person have three arms?"
I pouted. "He's not a monster. How could he have three arms? I guess there are two people buried here. It's just that we didn't dig up the other one's bones."
I was a little suspicious. Old He had said that this wasn't the grave of the principal and his daughter. Why were there two people here?
The fat man's father had the same thought as me. He asked Old He, "Uncle He, are you sure they're not the ones buried here?"
Old He shook his head. "Of course not.
You're a coroner in the village. Take a closer look at this skeleton. The bone is thick. It was obviously a man when he was alive.
Look at the extra arm. It's also a man's bone.
Thus, it's definitely not the principal and his daughter. "
The fat man's father nodded and muttered, "If it's not them, then who are they?"
Old He shook his head again. "It's not two people. It's just a person and an arm.
I've checked earlier. There aren't any other skeletons nearby. "
He sounded very confident, but we didn't doubt his words.
Just like what Auntie Chen had said, Old He was very capable. Although we didn't know what method he had used to check, if he said so, it had to be true.
However, we were even more confused. We couldn't understand why there was a person and an arm buried in the grave of the principal and his daughter. Moreover, they didn't belong to them.
Then, where did the principal's skeleton go?
And what about his daughter?
Old He didn't answer our questions. He took out a yellow talisman he had prepared and pasted it on the extra bone. At the same time, he mumbled something I didn't understand. Eventually, he wrapped the bone with a black cloth.
By then, the middle-aged man had already prepared a box. Old He placed the wrapped bones into the box and kept it.
Fatty's father was the first to understand. He asked Old He, "Uncle He, the Blood Infant was this arm?"
Old He nodded and didn't say much. He took out something that looked like a dial from his pocket and pinched his fingers as he looked at the dial. He moved it left and right as if he was trying to detect something.
I was amazed. I didn't know why the terrifying blood baby I'd seen earlier had turned into an arm.
These were two completely different things. Even if I believed Old He's words, I still couldn't understand this matter.
Later on, I asked the fat man's father. He told me that although the blood baby had almost become a flesh-eating baby, it hadn't fully formed yet. That was why it was just a Yin soul. Moreover, a Yin soul needs something to exist.
That arm was what it relied on.
After listening to his explanation, I thought about the red shadow and understood what he meant.
After a while, Old He used his feet to make several footprints on the ground. Then, he stopped and asked us to work together. We had to put the complete skeleton back into the coffin and fill in the grave that we had dug up.
Of course, he didn't let Fatty and I do it. We only helped when it was time to fill the grave.
After we were done, we got into the car but didn't go back.
Old He pointed in a direction and asked the middle-aged man to drive.
I couldn't help but ask him where we were going.
Old He finally opened his mouth to explain to us, "If I'm not wrong, the person in the grave was one of the twenty-eight people that died, and that arm was the old principal's arm.
If that's the case, there were twenty-eight people, so naturally, there would be twenty-eight graves. "
His words shocked me. According to him, the principal had been dismembered into twenty-eight pieces and buried in twenty-eight different places.
I asked Old He and got an affirmative answer. My heart felt heavy. At the same time, I couldn't understand why it had turned out this way.
Fatty's father seemed to know more than me. He immediately understood and asked Old He, "Are you saying that this grave was set up by someone?
Was it the person who moved the principal's grave?
But that can't be right. If that person had spent that much effort to set up twenty-eight graves, why would something like this happen?
Could it be that there's something wrong with the layout of the tomb? "
Old He shook his head. "There was no mistake. It was perfect. He achieved his goal."
Hearing this, the fatty's father's calm face showed a trace of shock. He asked loudly, "You mean, that person purposely set up this trap to raise the Shaved Head Ghost and the Flesh-Eating Baby?"
Old He nodded and squinted his eyes. "After that incident, Li Anbang's resentful energy was about to dissipate. As long as the burial ground wasn't a place with bad geomancy or a place to raise corpses, there wouldn't be any more changes. But this person appeared at this time and ordered them to set up such a large formation. He definitely didn't do it to suppress Li Anbang's evil spirit."
"Hehe, the Shaved Head Ghost was born from the souls of the twenty-eight people. Those twenty-eight people tore off their hair and died. That's why the Shaved Head Ghost was born.
But now, the Flesh-Eating Baby that the Shaved Head Ghost raised is residing in Li Anbang's skeleton. It's clear that he used the bones of those twenty-eight people to raise Li Anbang's skeleton!
This person isn't simple … "
I didn't understand Old He's words, but the fatty's father's face changed. He asked in fright, "Why did he spend so much effort?"
"I don't understand. I can only calculate the location of the other graves, but I can't see the mysteries of this graveyard formation.
After we find all the graves, I'm sure we'll be able to see through that person's scheme. "
From the moment Auntie Chen finished her story, Old He's face had been solemn. Even when he was trying his best to deal with the blood baby, he didn't look this serious. I didn't know what he was thinking about.
Following the direction he pointed, we quickly reached the foot of a mountain.
Old He had reached the right place.
After we got out of the car, we were stunned. There was no grave mound here, let alone a tombstone.
As I was about to ask, Old He took out the dial-like thing he had used before. I asked the fatty's father, "It's called a compass."
He looked at the compass and turned around, chanting, "Kan Long Xiang Wu, Gen Long Xiang Yin, Zhen Long Xiang Shen, Feng Long Xiang You."
Every time he recited a sentence, he would walk in a different direction. After walking for about nine steps, he would recite another sentence and walk again. After walking in this manner for four times, he stopped at a place. He stomped on the ground with his foot and said, "It's here."
Just as we were about to start digging, the fat man's father asked Old He, "The Kan Dragon leads to the Wu, and the Gen Dragon leads to the Yin … These are the Five Elements, the Ghost Yao. They are all extremely ominous positions.
Old He sneered and nodded. "To be able to raise an evil creature like the flesh-eating baby, of course, they're all in the ominous positions."
The fatty's father didn't say anything. He came to pick up the tools and started digging with us.
After digging for a while, our hoe touched the tombstone.
We dug hard and cleared the soil around us. We found a tombstone that was buried in the ground.
It was the same as the previous tombstone, with the words' Li Anbang and Li Ying, father and daughter 'written on it.
Digging up this tombstone proved that Old He's speculation was correct.
However, he didn't look happy. Instead, he looked even grimmer. Without saying a word, he took the lead and continued to dig.
The fatty and I wanted to help, but since it was time to dig up the remains, we were separated.
Not long after that, the grave was also dug up.
When it was time to open the grave, Old He sent me, the fatty, and even the middle-aged man away, leaving only him and the fatty's father. They looked solemn, as if there was an evil creature that wasn't any weaker than the blood-eating baby.
After we hid far away, Old He took out the brush and cinnabar we'd seen last time. He wrote a yellow talisman, then took out the thing that looked like a peach wood sword and a board. He raised the yellow talisman and chanted an incantation that we didn't understand. Then, he threw the yellow talisman into the grave. "Bang!" It sounded like someone had thrown a firecracker. The grave finally opened.
Following this sound, a white shadow suddenly flashed out of the grave. It was only the size of two palms, but it did not charge towards Old He and the others. Instead, it spun two rounds in the air with extreme speed, and with a 'xiu' sound, disappeared into the distance.
The fatty's father was puzzled. "Old He, what is that thing?"
Old He sighed and said, "Kan Long, Kun Rabbit, Mountain Shaking Monkey, Xun Chicken, Dry Horse, Snake Head … The previous grave was at the Kan position, and the Kan Long was the main grave. It raised the flesh-eating baby. This grave is at the Kun position. The Kun Rabbit is good at escaping, so it has already left.
Since it hasn't formed yet, it won't be a big deal. "
Lin Acheng asked again, "Uncle He, did you recognize this grave formation?"
"It was just a guess before, but now it's confirmed.
The main evil and the side evil, the taboo is twenty-eight … This grave formation is the Twenty-eight Fiend Yellow Springs Formation. "
Of course, the fatty and I didn't understand it. The fatty's father didn't seem to understand it either. He frowned and thought for a while, as if he wanted to ask more. However, Old He waved his hand and asked him to deal with the bones first.
Just like the previous grave, this one had a complete set of human bones, plus an extra bone. However, this time, it was a leg bone.
After dealing with it, Old He used the same method to store the old principal's leg bone.
It was getting late. We didn't head to the next grave, but returned to the county.
I didn't know what Old He was thinking, but he didn't rush me and the fatty to return to school. Instead, he arranged for us to stay in a hotel.
The next day, he called the fatty's father to go out, while the fatty and I returned to school.
There was still no news of Guo Mingming in school. I didn't know how he was doing, but the other students in the dormitory were fine.
We stayed in school for three days. On the weekend, the fatty and I went to the hotel again.
At night, Old He and the fatty's father came back. According to them, the twenty-eight graves had been dug out, and the old principal's remains were all found.
It sounded like it was done, but Old He said that we still had to find the real eye of the formation the next day. The biggest problem was there.
The fatty's father shook his head. "Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. Why is Li Anbang's remains used to set up the formation, but the eye of the formation is his daughter's body?
Li Anbang was the one with the most grievances. "
Old He chuckled. "A three-year-old shaving ghost, a half-armored flesh-eating infant, and a three-hundred-year-old demonic rakshasa. Did you forget?"
The fatty's father's eyes widened. "How … how is that possible?"
"How is it not possible?
Twenty-eight Fiend Yellow Springs Formation gave birth to a rakshasa. It's like killing a chicken with a butcher's knife. It's normal. "
"But, but …" The fatty's father wanted to say something, but he couldn't.
Old He waved his hand and stopped him. "It's useless to say more now. You'll find out tomorrow."
With that, he left alone.
The next day, they brought me and the fatty, and we set off in a car.
The strange thing was, I was getting more and more familiar with the road. We actually drove from the county to our village.
I asked Old He curiously, but he said, "The eye of the formation is here."
After entering the village, Old He didn't stop the car to check the direction. Instead, he directed the middle-aged man to drive to the back of the mountain near our junior high school.
When we got there, I pinched the jade bracelet on my neck. I panicked, and my face paled.